Forgis closes financing in 36 hours with 4.5 million dollars

(CONNECT) Forgis AG has closed a pre-seed financing round within just 36 hours. The start-up, which was founded in February 2025, raised 4.5 million dollars, according to its press release. The round was led by Zug-based venture capital company Redalpine and Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi. Other European deep-tech and industrial investors have also participated.

"The round was filled so quickly because the conviction was mutual," Gianmarco Hodel, Investment Manager at Redalpine, is quoted as saying. "Forgis addresses a trillion-dollar transformation at the interface between the digital and physical world."

The young company with its founders Federico Martelli (26), Camilla Mazzoleni (23) and Riccardo Maggioni (24) has set itself the goal of rebuilding the industrial intelligence of the West. The West invented industry, but later forgot how to continue building it and shifted production to the East, they analyze. Asia has taken over automation, BYD is overtaking Tesla, Europe has lost the battery race and the West is facing a possible industrial decline.

Forgis contrasts this with "industrial cognition". Whoever masters this will define the next era of production. Forgis creates the brain of factories: Machines, information and their logic are connected via a standardized interface.

With its fundamental software, an "orchestration infrastructure for industry", Forgis brings together machines, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and robots from different manufacturers and operates "digital engineers" directly at the edge - artificial intelligence agents that optimize production processes in real time. The aim is to turn isolated automation into a network of intelligent organisms.

According to Forgis, it is already working with IBM, several research laboratories at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and various Fortune 500 companies. The platform integrates seamlessly into existing systems from Siemens, Beckhoff and ABB. ce/mm